Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

ROCHESTER

What is it?

JANE

I'm afraid.

INT. EVENING. THORNFIELD - JANE'S BEDROOM.

Rochester holds the torn veil in his hands. He is aghast.

He cannot think what to say.

ROCHESTER

Jane, this is the only explanation.

It must have been half-dream, half-

reality. A woman did enter your

room last night and that woman was -

must have been - Grace Poole -

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 88.

JANE

It was not Grace Poole.

Rochester keeps talking over her.

ROCHESTER

You know how strange she is. What

did she do to me? To Mason? In a

state between sleeping and waking -

JANE

I was not asleep.

ROCHESTER

You noticed her entrance and her

actions but you've ascribed to

her an appearance different from

her own. That was your nightmare -